History of Science

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European s...

This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukrogers thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior. Stephen Gaukroger (1950202...

Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific ...

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of Galileo Galileis engagement with the Almagest, Claudius Ptolemys second-century scientific work on...

Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 is a compelling exploration of socialist a...

This book is the first complete biography of George Minchin Minchin (18451914), professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering Co...

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho a...

The topic of a potential relationship between Babylonian and Greco-Roman medicine has been discussed for a long time, yet it is notoriously difficu...

Using the Parallel Lives approach adopted by the Greek biographer Plutarch, noted historian of astronomy William Sheehan contrasts the lives and re...

Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China considers how the reading of celestial signsincluding comets, strange clouds, halos,...

There are arguably few areas of science more fiercely contested than the question of what makes us who we are. Are we products of our environments ...

To enact the books central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content...

This is the first account of Britains plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies something that historians have usually said Brita...

René Descartes: The Complete Correspondence in English Translation is the first complete English translation of the extant correspondence of the po...

The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various inte...

An insiders account of the NASA mission that changed our understanding of planets, planetary systems, and the stars they orbitAre we alone in the u...

From the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people ...

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the phys...

Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised...

In one of history's greatest experiments, a brilliant Greek, Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the distance around the earth to a few percent of th...

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Greats (c. 11931280) notion of virtus formativa, a shaping force responsible for...

This is a set offering the Springer books Alessandro Piccolominis Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance (ISBN ...